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Money. Money is what's necessary to win an election in America.
by TheRealSteel 6y ago
Money. Money is what's necessary to win an election in America.
- DuskStar 6y agoBloomberg's presidential run would perhaps be a counterexample there.
- enraged_camel 6y agoMoney and name recognition. If it wasn't for the TV show 'Apprentice', it is doubtful that people would have known who he was. That show is what established his (completely fabricated) reputation as a successful, skillful businessman, and he was able to ride that wave all the way to the White House.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> That show is what established his (completely fabricated) reputation as a successful, skillful businessman Uh, no, The Apprentice traded on that reputation, which had already been established decades earlier.
- enraged_camel 6y agoI meant in the public perception. Most people in America didn't know who Trump was before that show aired.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Most people in America didn't know who Trump was before that show aired. Maybe most people who were quite young when it aired; Trump was a constant media presence from something like the late 1970s well into the 1990s, and sort of a pop culture touchstone for conspicuous excess as well as having a reputation as a successful NYC developer and prolific womanizer.